Improvement in trunks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARVEY L. LOWMAN, OFBIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUNKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,435, dated December9, 1873; application fili d November 6, 1873.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY L. LoWnAN, of Birmingham, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inTrunks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and

' which said drawings constitute part of this speciiication, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side view, and in Fig. 2 an end view.

This invention relates to an improvement in trave1ing-trunks, the objectbeing to prevent the jar and injury to the trunk which are occasioned byrolling or trundling; and it consists in contracting the top, bottom,and sides toward each end into a circular form, so that at the extremeends the corners or angles are removed.

At the center, in transverse and longitudinal section, the trunk may beof any ofthe usual forms, substantially rectangular. Toward each end thesides, top, and bottom are contracted into a circular form, as seen inFigs.

l and 2-that is, the ends A are substantially a circle in form, and fromthe periphery of this circle the sides, top, and bottom expand into theusual or other desirable form at the center.

By this construction the angles or corners are removed, and in trundlingory rolling the trunk, as is the usual practice iu handling baggage, itwill be rolled upon the periphery A HARVEY L. LOVVMAN.

Vitnesses:

NVM. B. WoosTER, DAVID ToERANcE.

